Episode 27 - Martina Hingis: How To Beat Serena; Life As No.1 At 16; Following In Lendl's Coaching Footsteps?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2013
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
With the Australian Open in its second week, we speak to the great Martina Hingis, who reached the final six times in a row. Can anyone stop Serena Williams? What would she advise a player to do against Williams? And what is her opinion of some of the up-and-coming stars? Are the age rules right these days given that Hingis was the World No.1 at 16 and retired at 22? What does she think of Andy Murray, and the impact of Ivan Lendl, and would she ever like to take a similar coaching role? All questions answered.
After the five-set classic between Stanislas Wawrinka and Novak Djokovic, we also ask you whether it’s time for a 5th set tie-break in the final set of all Grand Slam tournaments.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | We're into we too are the Australian Open and what a climax to the event we have in store. |
| 0:17.1 | After Jockovich's five-set five-hour win over Stanislaus Verrinka, |
| 0:21.1 | is it time for a tie break in the fifth set? We discuss your views. |
| 0:25.1 | And in our big interview, we speak to the great Martina Hingetz about her success here |
| 0:30.5 | and how she would play Serena Williams today. |
| 0:34.0 | Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. We're deep into week two now of the Australian Open |
| 0:39.2 | and it has been exciting so far. Stanislaus Verrinka against Novak Jockovich will anybody ever |
| 0:45.3 | forget that five-set match, five hours and two minutes, 12-10 in the fifth set. Jockovich |
| 0:51.8 | survives, Federer is still in, he's making mints me to the supposed nightmare draw that he's got |
| 0:57.6 | and Andy Murray's in as well. So it's going to be thrilling, it's going to be exciting. |
| 1:01.2 | The women's draw is looking a bit tasty too. Lina has just been Agnieszka Radvanska so that was |
| 1:06.1 | a bit of a shock and Catherine Whittaker's here. How you doing, Catherine? I'm always here. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm doing well, thank you. You're an ever-present, aren't you? Well, it's been some week at the Australian |
| 1:16.4 | Open. Of course, we last spoke, I think it was last Thursday, didn't we and we were sort of midway |
| 1:21.5 | through the the Laura Robson Petra Koviteva match at the time. That one finished 11-9 in the third |
| 1:28.0 | set so that was a bit of a thriller as well. But it's Sloan Stevens who's come through in that |
| 1:33.1 | section of the draw. She's now going to play against Serena Williams. What do you think about that |
| 1:38.0 | one? This is sort of the master against the protégé, isn't it? It's the second match I've |
| 1:42.5 | but they met in, was it Brisbane or was it Sydney? Brisbane, I think. Yeah, and I mean, it only, |
| 1:49.7 | never looked like Serena was going to lose that. But then again, Sloan challenged her as much as |
| 1:53.6 | anybody has, probably in the last six, eight, however many months that she's been utterly dominant. |
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